Trevor Forest suffered a sudden cardiac arrest during a break between hockey scrimmages at the NAIT hockey arena two weeks ago. His quick-thinking teammates resuscitated him with CPR and a public automated external defibrillator, a portable device that sends electric energy to the heart to return the heartbeat to normal.

We will be reporting on lives saved around the world since our first documented life saved here in Singapore.Officers Stan Bruno and Manuel Ruiz were on routine patrol when they got a dispatch at 9:43 a.m. to help paramedics dealing with an unconscious 54-year-old man. When they arrived at the station, they saw that paramedics had yet to arrive, so they got the defibrillator from their squad car and brought it to the platform.

The officers placed the device on the man. When it told them he needed to be shocked, they charged the device and administered two charges.

Fiato, who lives in Binghamton, said he was lucky to be at the BCC rink because it has a defibrillator, and several trained emergency medical technicians happened to be involved in the league. One of them, 19-year-old Dave Edwards, delivered the life-saving shock after rink employee Brett Carter retrieved the device.

Honestly, it’s an indescribable feeling to know I saw this guy die laying in front of me and to bring him back,” said Edwards, an EMT with the Apalachin Fire Department. “It makes you kind of feel like you did make a difference in somebody’s life.”

To his wife, Patti, the AED, along with the good Samaritans at the rink that night, are her husband’s guardian angels.